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| Princess shocks Norwegians. Many Norwegians were shocked and wrote to the newspapers when Princess Anne - President of the Save the Children Fund - was shown on television snubbing a five-year-old while visiting a hospital nursery in Oslo at the weekend. But a Buckingham Palace spokesman said last night that the impression gained was "totally untrue," and was the result of the film being edited and "taken out of context." The Princess, in Norway for a fund-raising day for a national children's charity, appeared on television on Sunday night. When five-year-old Oeyvind Stroem tried to shake hands with her, he appeared to have been spurned. "No cuddle, not even a smile." the Dagbladet newspaper bannered on its front page. The media said it received "thousands" of phone calls objecting to the Princess's manner and suggesting that she should "go home." Norway's largest circulating newspaper, Verdens Gang, said that most of its callers asked how a Princess, who was a mother herself, could show such coolness towards a child. A spokesman for Princess Anne said last night: "The television clip was taken out of context and gave a totally untrue impression." |